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From: Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <Arfrever@g.o>
To: Gentoo Development <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Cc: Gentoo Council <council@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Extending EAPI="4"
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 18:14:33
Message-Id: 201011281915.59713.Arfrever@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Extending EAPI="4" by Zac Medico
1 2010-11-19 16:51:03 Zac Medico napisaƂ(a):
2 > On 10/25/2010 06:24 AM, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote:
3 > > use.unsatisfiable and package.use.unsatisfiable files would cause that `repoman` would treat
4 > > given USE flags in the same way as masked USE flags. These files wouldn't affect behavior of
5 > > `emerge`:
6 > > - If user has enabled given USE flag specified in use.unsatisfiable or package.use.unsatisfiable
7 > > and if optional dependencies controlled by this USE flag are already installed or satisfiable,
8 > > then `emerge` will allow to install given package.
9 > > - If user has enabled given USE flag specified in use.unsatisfiable or package.use.unsatisfiable
10 > > and if optional dependencies controlled by this USE flag cannot be satisfied (with current
11 > > settings of ACCEPT_KEYWORDS, /etc/portage/package.keywords etc.), then `emerge` will print
12 > > informative error message telling e.g. about a dependency masked by ~${ARCH} keyword.
13 >
14 > Can't we print a "masked by ~${ARCH} keyword" message as you suggest,
15 > even without the use.unsatisfiable data? If so, then isn't
16 > use.unsatisfiable redundant? Your patch [1] seems to behave exactly like
17 > use.mask, so I don't see any value added.
18
19 repoman sometimes needs to allow stable packages to have optional dependencies on unstable
20 packages (usually until these packages are stabilized). My patch implements this functionality
21 for repoman.
22
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24 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Extending EAPI="4" Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>